'expansive, meticulous and revelatory'

Written by Steve Barker for The Wire on Monday, September 10, 2018

It's almost 30 years since the renowned blues scholar Paul Oliver published Black Music in Britain: Essays on the Afro-Asian Contribution To Popular Music in the Open University's Popular Music in Britain series; now journalist, writer and broadcaster Kevin Le Gendre picks up this neglected area of study in his expansive, meticulous and revelatory new volume that takes the scope of his research back into the Middle Ages.